BIO: John Gilkison, Fleming Co., KY
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"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO
THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES,
ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.
SULLIVAN CO., IN.
HAMILTON TWP.
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John Gilkison, son of Robert A. and Annie (Hunt) Gilkison, natives of Kentucky, was
born in Fleming County, of that State, July 22, 1815. The parents came to Sullivan
County in 1816, and located on the Prairie near Carlisle, where they remained, hard at
work, for about fifteen years. They then purchased a farm a mile and a half west of
Sullivan, where they lived until their deaths. They lie at rest in the old Timmons
Graveyard. John remained with his parents until his majority, and then began farming
for himself. In 1837, he purchased 160 acres of land within a mile and a half of
Sullivan, and, during the long succeeding years, cleared it, fenced it, and made it
one of the best in the county. His first cabin was of logs, with puncheon floor and
stick-and-clay chinmey, but in later years his economy, industry and prudence enabled
him to erect a fine two-story frame structure. In 1878, well advanced in years,
he retired from active labor, and moved to Sullivan, where he now resides. In March,
1839, he married Mary H. Canary, who bore him three children--Robert A., Lydia Jane
and Christian C. Robert alone is now living. Mrs. Gilkison died, August 29, 1879,
and Mr. Gilkison married Mrs. Sarah Ann (Cox) Freeman, widow of Fletcher Freeman,
January 8, 1882. He is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Methodist
Church.